DSC - Opposites!

This week at Digitally Sweet it's all about "Opposites Attract"! And I decided to go with shapes - circles/squares. My image is reindeer silhouette from Bugaboo (love it!)

Suzy Bee's #8 - White Christmas

It's a "White Christmas" at Suzy Bee's this week!! Time to show off those Christmas cards and once again, we're being sponsored by Lacy Sunshine! I am showcasing Eleanor and Pickles Snow Day's Fun for you today and here's what I created ..



I decided to do a digital project with this. I colored it in PSE and then loaded up into my My Memories Suite V5 and created the card face. It's on a 6x6 page, so now I can print or I can even send as an email attachment to someone if I want to :)

So come on over and join the fun, we'll see ya there! Thanks for stopping by!

DSC #56 - Snowflake Fairy

Hey! Hope everyone has had a fabulous week! The weather here has been amazing. So warm for this time of yr and even the nights are decent. We've been sitting outside at night and loving it. Certainly not complaining! So, we have a new challenge at Digitally Sweet and we're being sponsored by:

One person will win 5 awesome images! Our challenge is "Anything With Wings" and here's what I created using Digi Darla's "Snowflake Fairy". I colored it up in PSE9 and then played with some editing techniques. Once I was done coloring up my image, I opened it up in MMSv4 and created what you see here. You could use this as a Christmas wall hanging, card front, even a little scrapbook page on your Christmas album. Lots of possibilities!

Hope you can find some time to join us this week! Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!

LM #150 - Christmas in July

Hi there! Happy Sunday!! I know, it's the last day of the weekend but it's also a new challenge at Lasting Memories! This week it's all about "Christmas in July" which seems to be a popular theme around blogland! My layouts today are going back a few years, 7 to be exact!

Look at Ashleigh's eyes, they're HUGE! Almost as big as Andrew's smile because he got just what he wanted ... 

And here we were at 6:30am on Christmas morning! Gifts are done (eek!) and off he went riding! And see what he's wearing and if you really look, there was no snow that yr!!

So come on over and join us for some Christmas in July! We can't wait to see those LO's! Thanks for stopping by!

LM#124 - "Dear Santa"

Morning!! We have a new challenge at Lasting Memories today! We're challenging you to use borders on your layouts. Any border will do! For mine, I used a 'flourish' border as well as the borders from my CTMH paper packs!! My son is 3 in this photo. He'll be 17 in June ... a little behind!!

We're being sponsored this week by .. 

So come on over and join us for your chance to win!

DSC #15 - Sketch Challenge

Good morning!! It's a new challenge at Digitally Sweet!! Once again, we're being sponsored by Cedar Chest Designs!! We each chose some images to play with, thank you Katie!!

We're challenging you to this awesome sketch this week!!!

Here's what I created with my MMS V4 and I used 3 images!!! Christmas Elf, Poinsettia Flower and Christmas Dew Drop. Not bad!!

Be sure to visit us to see what the super talented DT came up with and have a try at our sketch while you're there!! Can't wait to see what you come up with!

DSC #14 - Ornamental Inspiration

It's time for a new challenge at Digitally Sweet!! It's an "Ornamental Inspirational" challenge!! What do you find inspiring about this photo?

We're being sponsored by Template Dreams this week! LOVE her kits!! I chose "Festive Time"

And here's what I designed for today .. but I'll be back with more this week for sure!!

Come on over and join us for a chance to win a $5 gift cert from Template Dreams!!! Cya there! 

DDC #37 - Snowflakes and Fairies

I'm late, but here's my card for this weeks Digi Darla challenge - "Use Your Favourite Die Cut" - using "Holly Fairy" from this weeks sponsor, Delicious Doodles!! I chose snowflakes die cuts as that's definitely my fav this time of the yr!

Come on over to DDC and see how you can win some of these amazing images!

Happy New Year Everyone & Another PLG Challenge!!!

Hi everyone! Hope you all had a wonderful new year!! I ended up sick with a cold and hubby's mom in hospital (she's ok .. misdiagnosis!!!) so we had a quiet night in, which we didn't mind at all. We usually spend the evening with finger foods, good movies and the kid's. We really enjoy that.

I do have a couple resolutions and they're not out of the ball park for me ..

One of the things we started today is to get back to a healthier lifestyle. I'm looking forward to trying new recipes (if you have a healthy recipe, I'd LOVE to hear it!) and just getting fit and healthy. The other is to get caught up on all my scrapbooking!! I'm STILL working on Disney 2007!! Now I'm 2 Florida trips behind. Date night once a mth MINIMUM is another one.

Speaking of the new year, if you're a scrapbooker and looking to possibly be on a DT .. we're extending our DT call at Lasting Memories till Wed, Jan 4th at 6pm EST, so come and give it a try!!!

Before I go, PLG's is having another challenge and we were given this photo ....

For me, I took the colors and it also says "holiday" to me and I also took the numbers and added the yr. 

On that note, I smell my homemade turkey soup and it's tempting my tummy - healthy right?? Have a great night!!

Our Pups

These are actually from last Christmas, but I just had to share again!!!! I've met some new friends over this past year and I knew you'd get a kick out of these. These are our boys, Buddy and Riley. Bud's (first 2 pics) my suck. I always wanted that dog that followed you everywhere, ya know?? Well, I found him in Buddy. Riley's a big galoot lol and a very funny one at that!!!! Hope everyone's well!! We're actually getting snow right now!!! First major snow of the year .. go figure it came AFTER Christmas!!! Have a great night!

I did it AGAIN!

Oh man .. I did it AGAIN!! If you haven't had a chance, check out my text blunder HERE. So last night, I send Andrew (my son) a text saying "Dinner" .. I get a text from my BROTHER "Q'ues ce cest??" (no he's not french, just likes to think he's either that or spanish LOL!!) I'm thinking, WHAT??? Oh man .. I text HIM (who's an hour away) that dinner was ready!! I give up!!! "They're coming to take me away ha ha!!"

THEN, I take out the turkey, come to put in fridge and go FLYING through my kitchen .. I (yes ME) left the stinkin' mop out and I tripped over the handle. Keith came flying in from the garage, Ashleigh down the stairs - guess it was a very loud fall. Here I was in a crumpled heap on the kitchen floor, TOTALLY embarrassed because I left the stinkin' mop there in the first place!! So, I have a sore knee, thumb .. what a night!!

On that note, here's a little Thank You card I did for my daycare parents for my Christmas gifts (I was spoiled!!) And I did it with my Memories Suite! Cool huh?? K, I better get baking .. ton's to do!! Have a GREAT day friends! Oh and for another laugh, chk this out!!

LMCB #49 - It's Christmas In July!

Hello and good morning (or evening, depending where you are!!) It's Sunday, which means 2 things ...

1. I've missed an entire week of blogging!
2. It's a new challenge at Lasting Memories!!!

We're on holidays, so I've hardly been on here, but we've had a great week!! I even went and wrote my bike license!! Yep, ME!! I am now licensed to ride a motorcycle! Now we're looking for a cheap learning bike for me and then off to the wknd trainers course. I still can't believe I did it! LOL!

Now onto this weeks challenge at Lasting Memories!! It's Christmas in July!!! Here's my LO for this week. I chose to do a digital one and love how it turned out. You have GOT to check out the rest of the DT layouts!! Awesome!!!! Hope everyone's having a great wknd! We have one more day here and then back to work on Tuesday. Not looking fwd to it .. these holidays go to fast!!

Christmas - 2009

One thing I am really enjoying about digital scrapbooking is that I can go through all my photo cd's that I haven't had a chance to print and whip up a great LO and get it in and printed! These are photo's on a CD that my mom gave me a bit ago and I haven't printed anything from it. So, here's a couple to get me started. These are from 2009. We had a gift exchange and then a little dance with Cowbot Santa!!!! LOL!!

Christmas Morning

I had to share these 2 photo's. The first one is of Ashleigh on Christmas morning. She asked for a laptop this yr, so Santa brought her one. Well, she opened this gift and she was looking at the box and had just asked what it could be when she realized WHAT it was! LOL! What a pic! The other is of Andrew acting too cool, lol, when he opened one of his bike parts he asked for. I love Christmas morning!

Our Christmas Trees

Hello friends! I hope Santa was super good to everyone!! Our kid's were spoiled and had a wonderful Christmas. Ashleigh got her own laptop and Andrew got his bike and all the customizable parts he asked for. Keith and I did as well. He bought me a beautiful diamond necklace and I bought him a new ring. We also got our goodies from the kid's/each other as well. It was nice though this year as we each bought each other something JUST from us. Ashleigh got Just Dance (original & 2) for Wii and it is AWESOME! We were in stitches yesterday, danced the afternoon away. Was great! We had a nice dinner last night and we're now off the rest of the week and really looking fwd to it. Hubby has to go in a couple days, but I am off till a week Tuesday! Yippee! I wanted to share some photo's with you. This year we decided to have 2 tree's. It was my first year decorating our tree with a theme. I went and bought all new lights/ornaments and went with red/silver and Ashleigh helped me with it. We LOVE it! Then a couple weeks ago, we went and chose a real tree...something we haven't done since Ash was a baby. So that was her tree to decorate and she did a beautiful job. That was our "Santa" tree and our family gifts were under the "theme" tree. Was nice actually bc when they were done their Santa gifts, we still had more to open. Worked out well! I got a new lens for my camera from Keith and the kids, so I was playing with it and managed to get pics of our trees with the lights on and they look so pretty! I just have to share. Happy holidays to you and yours and may you enjoy the rest of this holiday season!!!!

Snow Friends....

Good morning! Wow, the countdown is certainly on isn't it? I have a TON of wrapping to do and we have to get Andrew's gift from the neighbor who has been storing it for us. Lots to do and very little time left!! Here's another of the Christmas cards I put together for my grandma. I love this one. Again, sweet and simple. She loved all her cards and it really made her day. She may even have some on hand for next yr now. I think since I'm still in the festive mood, I may make a package up for her now and put it away. Then I'll be sure to have them on hand for her. It really makes you realize, especially at a time like this, it's the little things that count.

(no, it's NOT supposed to be yellow snowflakes...I guess the stickles didn't like the black ink..oh well!)

Sharing The Warmth

Good morning! Before I tell you about my post, I want to send out a huge HAPPY BIRTHDAY to my sister, Lee Ann!! Hope you have an awesome day today!!

This is another card I made for my grandma to give away. I kept it sweet and simple and I think it turned out pretty cute! We're off to see her today and have lunch with her. She has no idea we're coming, so it'll be a HUGE surprise for her! Have a great day all!

Warm Holiday Wishes

A couple years ago, I made my grandma a pack of Christmas cards for her to give away. She's in a nursing home and it's quite hard for her to get out, so it was the perfect gift. Last yr, I ran out of time and didn't get a chance to make any and I heard through the grapevine that she was disappointed. So...the kids and I are heading up to surprise her tmw for lunch and I thought I would take her some cards. Here's a sample of what I've made so far. I think she'll like them, don't you? Hope everyone is having a wonderful weekend!

(don't forget, you can click the pic to see it enlarged!)